Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shoe Shop Owner David Rivera, 35, and his wife Irma, 33, were the first to settle into the new project, genteelly christened Charlotte Gardens. Proudly showing off his fully equipped three-bedroom house with its cathedral ceilings, plush carpeting and small backyard, David notes, "This is a hell of a deal compared with the hellhole we lived in before." The Riveras jumped at the chance to desert their often heatless $400-a-month rental apartment near by. They took possession of their new $47,000 home with an initial $7,500, and will pay a mortgage of $370 a month...
Grace's team persisted and by last month had produced a 263-page report listing some 150 examples of legislative opposition to needed reforms and naming the big spenders in Congress. When the group closed up shop last week, however, the specific boondoggles had been deleted and the report no longer named names. Grace contended that so many instances of congressional meddling with sound business practices had been found that it was impossible to list them all and unfair to cite only a few examples...
...remarkable how well the Redskins recovered from last year's success, it is amazing how well Murphy weathered the strike. In the N.F.L., shop stewards tend to lose a step in the offseason, and Murphy was in the forefront of the negotiations. "Before the strike," he says, "the captains went to Joe Gibbs and told him there were some things we had to do. All he said was 'Whatever you do, stay together...
...hold racing camps where they can polish slalom techniques while the youngsters run gates in separate classes. On the other hand, Charles Maas, director of marketing at Vail and Beaver Creek in Colorado, says that 15% of the people who come to Vail do not ski: "They want to shop or go ice skating." To amuse family members whose interest in alpine skiing is less than fanatic, resort managers are building elaborate tennis and racquetball courts, heated pools, co-ed Jacuzzis, ice rinks and-say it isn't so, Sepp-video-game rooms...
...Moore attended nearby Bryn Mawr, where Hilda eventually dropped out after failing English. In 1911 she left for England and Pound, who was already there politicking for modernism and cutting a rebellious figure in velvet jacket and flowing tie. He edited her new poems in the British Museum bun shop, trimmed her byline down to initials and made her a charter member of the Imagist movement...